The king of game engines Unity is considered the big kahuna of game engines. It is often cited as the best engine to learn if your end goal is to work in…
Tag: Linux
Fasteroids – An Asteroids-like game for Linux and Windows
Today I realized that, since redoing this web site, I still haven’t added any information about the game I made back in 2017-2020. Recently I revived Fasteroids, and made some changes to…
Findmonitor BASH script – identify and price monitors with one script
Note: This script is NOT compatible with systems running Wayland. We use Xubuntu Linux at our project. The idea for this BASH shell script was born out of the need to process…
Legend of Grimrock – a better Bard’s Tale III
Bards Tale III – my introduction to 3D like adventure Back in the late 1980’s I worked for Simcoe Computer Consultants at the 400 Market, outside of Barrie, Ontario. The 400 Market…
Why does Computer Recycling still use Xubuntu Linux?
There are so many other Linux distributions Xubuntu Linux looks very old fashioned when compared to DeepinOS, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and other beefier Linux distributions. So why does the Working Centre’s Computer…
findmonitor.sh – a Linux BASH shell script to create a PDF of monitor information
About findmonitor.sh The Working Centre’s not-for-profit Computer Recycling Project sometimes receives donations of many monitors all at once. Our previous method for handling monitors was to set them up, run them through…
36 Extra programs Computer Recycling installs on our Xubuntu Linux systems
A mix of extra software designed to make transitioning to Linux easier The Computer Recycling Project at The Working Centre has been installing Linux on computers as far back as late 2001….
If I was building a new Media Centre
I could cut corners, but… This evening I went through the exercise of thinking about the parts I would use if I was building a brand new computer to serve as our…
Updating Discord on Xubuntu
Discord is one of those applications that is a PITA (Pain In The Acetabulum). The problem is that updating Discord is not a matter of simply running sudo apt update && sudo…
Hardware detection script for *buntu Linux refurbishers
About the script I wrote the hardware.sh BASH script to make it a bit simpler for volunteers at The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project to figure out what hardware was in a…